Anything you rent that is owned or run by R.P. Management, you will have major problems in my current apartment they moved me from a worse apartment to a "better" apt. and the roof is literally falling down, I woke up last night all wet. They fixed it 4 times so far, but still leaks and is really raining bad here and the ceiling popcorn itself has been peeling off the ceiling. I pay 950.00 rent a month for this place and it's a wreck, it looked alright in the beginning, but when it started raining out here, it has been falling apart ever since. Also we have people selling drugs and some people out in front drinking beer and that is illegal in our state. They own or manage a few apt complex's out here and there all a mess, I have been living out here since 1983, and when this company took over these complex's they were in tip top shape, now they are run down. One of the complex's just recently had an incident where a tenant lit the place on fire and she only got 160 days in jail. The other place, whispering palms had people getting stabbed and murdered cause of drug activity, so we moved to another location and it is run by R.P. Management and the same issues are happening, someone just outside our place got shot to death with 6 bullets in him. I am just a working man trying to find a decent place to live. I am sad! :(

It's true, RP management buildings are the worst I have ever encountered. I was friends with several people who worked in one of the buildings they manage. They have this agenda of filling all of the apartments within a complex as quickly as possible, with little care to the criminal background or basic decency of the new tenants, then they kick out the riff-raff and most complained about tenants and do it all over again. They don't do any more than the most basic cleaning, and certainly not any repair. It is common that if something breaks in the apartment they try to blame it on the tenant. Seriously, this building had roaches, but instead of dealing with the issue and hiring a pest management company, they blamed the individual tenants, claiming that they brought them in with them, and they were responsible for dealing with it.

I'm currently in the Tacoma Branch of the R.P. Management clusterf#%@ and believe you me it's going to be something I remember for a long time. It's been long known, even to us on the lower levels that the 10th floor is where you avoid at night or if you want to score drugs. They come and the go but they NEVER leave. The previous manager, after attempting to clean up the place finally quit when her next higher up wouldn't support her with the management or the financial needs to make the place attractive again. Leaking roofs, dog urine stained rugs, and the main entryway repainted the same hideous color it was when the building was still a multistory retirement home for the beridden and the sick. All the doors and popable, meaning if you just tug on them hard enough they open. They have a turn over rate like you wouldn't believe and at least half the building is empty, with many rooms gutted to repair appartments that other tennants have moved out. A large surge of new tennants, many of which I'm told shouldn't qualify for residentcy have been brought in to fix the occupancy problem. Things appear to get worse and worse and the management either doesn't know, or doesn't care.

Well written and investigated story. This is a huge problem for renters out there, but its nice to see some people teaming up.

Meth kills and it spread like a disease for sure.

Well-written and researched story. Thanks!

-Bryan from Bellingham

Oh, RP Management...Seattle's slumlords, full of incompetent or embezzling apartment managers. If you are unlucky enough to rent with them, don't expect to see anything fixed (ever) or get any part of your deposit back. In truth, they will try to make you pay some b.s. charges, like "furniture removal" from a completely empty apartment.

-former tenant of the Crust (the Crest) on Capitol Hill

I rented with RP for a while. Complete slumlords. I'll be going to small claims court to get my security deposit back out of principle.

I take the side of the Stranger and the Quinault tenants in this story, but at the same time this article is completely libelous. I would recommend deeper investigation before lobbing these kinds of claims against the apartment manager -- just because she's too poor to launch a libel suit against you doesn't make it okay to libel her.

Nevermind I just looked through my media law book and this is okay. Screw RP MGMT!